So I have been trying to switch from gmail to outlook.com. I have given it a month but I am switching back.
I really like the look of outlook and will maybe try it again in a month or so, but right now it seems much too buggy.
In the last 48hrs it has been down/off and on for hours at a time. The search functionality almost never works and always asks for me to refresh the page.
There may be some other oddities that I found but the above are the two deal breakers for me at this point.
Anyone else had issues or is it just me?

I have been using it since it's beta release day and I have not had issues. There was a day when I was not getting an immediate notification on my phone with my @outlook.com email, but that was the only thing that happened. It was fixed.

I keep outlook.com running on the taskbar all day and haven't seen it down or off. The only time I have a problem with search is if I search for an e-mail that has been deleted. Besides that, no problem.

The search functionality works perfectly for me--I have literally never had an issue. I have also not seen it down--it asked me to refresh one day a few days back but that was the same day as I heard about outlook.com being updated. Enjoy gmail--I have enjoyed not seeing targeted ads as they relate to the content of my emails for the last three months since switching!

Strange? Not sure why my account is different. See below. I currently can not get in and it has been off and on since yesterday.

Problem We're having a problem accessing email. You might not be able to see all your email messages. Feb 21 1:18 PM
Updates Fixing the problem is taking longer than we hoped. We'll provide an update by Feb 22 3:22 PM. We apologize for the lengthy interruption in service. Feb 22 11:52 AM
Fixing the problem is taking longer than we hoped. We'll provide an update by Feb 22 11:22 AM. We apologize for the lengthy interruption in service. Feb 22 7:28 AM
Fixing the problem is taking longer than we hoped. We'll provide an update by Feb 22 7:22 AM. We apologize for the lengthy interruption in service. Feb 22 3:24 AM
Fixing the problem is taking longer than we hoped. We'll provide an update by Feb 22 3:22 AM. We apologize for the lengthy interruption in service. Feb 21 11:23 PM
Fixing the problem is taking longer than we hoped. We'll provide an update by Feb 21 11:22 PM. We apologize for the lengthy interruption in service. Feb 21 9:23 PM
We're still working on the problem and will provide an update by Feb 21 9:22 PM. We apologize for the delay and thank you for your patience. Feb 21 7:37 PM
We're working on the problem and will provide an update by Feb 21 7:22 PM. Thank you for your patience. Feb 21 5:22 PM

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gmail is unusable to me....clutter in the interface, threaded message is confusing as ****...and ads everywhere makes it even more uglier. Outlook.com is by far the best version of microsoft mail service I have ever used, compare to hotmail live, outlook.com has improved even more